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Ireland

Pest control blog posts provided by bloggers from Ireland

G is for Good Golly Miss Molly

Brigitta for rentokil.ie | May 20, 2013
Good golly!! Garden ants are on the march in Ireland. Sorry if the title misled you. Sadly, this isn’t a post about the great tune by Little Richard – the lyrics of which (having just researched) are not really about anything, but let’s not let that detract from the great song….but moving on. It appears [...]

F is for Flies

Brigitta for rentokil.ie | May 10, 2013
I know, this is far too obvious choice but flies are going to become very topical shortly. With the weather warming up, they will soon start to annoy us all…once again. We will be reaching for our fly swatters before we know it! Mind you, the palm of my hand used to do the trick [...]

E is for Earwig

Brigitta for rentokil.ie | May 8, 2013
The name of this pest has always baffled me.  Everyone knows I am not a big insect fan. But even the name of this particular pest is creepy! Why ear? And wigs? Why name it earwig? Having done a little bit of research into the origin of the name I can now explain to you [...]

B is for Bed bugs

Brigitta for rentokil.ie | April 16, 2013
Not bed bugs again, I hear you whine! But I could not do “B” and not talk about this stubborn pest. A couple of years back, it seemed everywhere I looked everyone was talking about bed bugs. They were infesting cinemas and clothes shops in the States and public transport too. Ireland, UK, Germany – [...]

A is for Arachnophobia

Brigitta for rentokil.ie | April 11, 2013
So here we go with my pest related experiences & comments starting, in alphabetical order, with the letter A. A is for Arachnophobia and all things arachnids. I do not have a particular fear of spiders but I am not their biggest fan. Dare I say, I may have killed one or two in the [...]